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Subject: [OM] Re: OT: Apostrophe's (sic.) (was: Re: Can anyone use a Varimagni finder?)
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 18:44:33 +0000
All good stuff, but your name sounds fine with an extra syllable.  
Therefore Piers's OM3Ti sounds fine to me... and, I imagine, to you 
Piers ;-).

Chris

On 23 Jan 2005, at 16:28, Piers Hemy wrote:

> Since my gripe was with Gord, here is what Univ of Calgary proposes:
> "If the noun is singular and ends in "s," you may form the possessive 
> either
> by adding apostrophe s or by simply adding the apostrophe.
>
>        Examples:  James's novels    the boss's car    Dickens's heroine
>                   James' novels     the boss' car     Dickens' heroine
>
> The exceptions to this flexible rule are Jesus, Moses, and Zeus, which
> traditionally form the possessive with just the apostrophe:
>
>           Jesus' teaching     Moses' commandments     Zeus' power
>
> Also, Socrates and Xerxes, should be formed with an apostrophe only."


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